The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20
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GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON December 14.-Mr. Balfour, chief
secretary for Ireland addressed an immense
asscmblage in Free Trade hail. at Manchester
tonight. In consequence OF warnings that q
plot had been formed to assassinate Mr. Bal
four, the police guarded the approaches to the
platform, and were stationed at various points
in the interior of the hall. Barricades around
the free trade hall were established to town
hall, where Mr.. Balfour sleeps under guard
The malcontent element was finally SUBJ
dued. Mr.. Balfour, in an elaborate criticism
OH the most recent speeches i'll favor of home
rule, compared Sir GeorgelTreyelyan to Bun
vans "Pitiabe," who started with "Chris-
tian" on the right road remained a short
time, but falling intoithe Slough of Despond,
promptly used violent language toward his
former companions, and finally returned to the
city of Destruction. The radical party in
January, 1886, thought that everything was
right which they had thought wrong in De
cember, 1885.
They had sulled the character of their party
forever. With the deterioration OF their moral
fibre, the radicals had adopted the methods of
their Irish allies. These had long been accus-
toniod to copOus streams of violent rhetoric
which made them incapable of that sobriety of
statement which the country expected from
practical statesmen. The utterances, even to
the foremost separatist leaders, stI0wUIi III III
creasng want Of moral perception. Mr.. Glad
stone had boon forced to retract some of the
assertions made by him in his Infamous speech
ut Nottingham, but only under the threat Of a
tho farmers OF Ireland were being eyioted by
wholesale. The fact was that during the first
three months OF Treyelyan's administration as
chief secretary for Ireland, there were S53 eyic-
lions, while for the same period of the speakers
tenure OF office the eyiCtiOns numbered only
132. After rebutting statements of Dillon and
others on the condition of Ireland, he concluded
by predicting the triumph of order under the
policy of the government.
Dublin, December 13--The duke of Aber-
u I - L. ~
here today and mado q speech in which he
condemned the absentees. Delegates were APP
pointed TO submit to the government that the
land owners of ireland are entitled to compen-
sation for losses sustained through action Of
the government i'll reducing rents to q greater
extent than was justified BY economic causes
in depriving land owners of reve1sionary inter
est in the occupancy OF soil, in lessening sale
able and receivable value Of judicial rents and
in depriving land owners of the right to
obtain the best rent q solvent tenant
was able TO pay in the open market.
Tho compulsory reduction of in
terest on mortgages, they viii insist, is UNI
just and impolitic, as it is impossible TO dis
tinguish between mortgages and family
| charges
BERLIN, December 17.-Emperor William
hold today an informal council on the military
situation. Prince William, General Won
NIoltke, General Won Schellendorff, Count
| Won Waldersee, and General Alberdyll were
| present. The council, which lasted two hours,
is understood to have special bearing on to-
! morrow's military council at Vienna.
DIR. Trefort, Hungarian minister Of public
| instruction, speaking at a meeting at Pesth
academy today, reminded his audience that
| last year, while everybody believed the coun-
| try to be on the verge of war, he doubted that
an outbreak would occur. Now, on the con-
trary, he was forced, although an ardent par
| tisan of peace, to declare his doubt of its be-
! ing maintained DIR. Trefort declared that the
blame for the origin of war-if war comes
would be due to the encroachment of Russian
pan-slavism.